Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 63 79
Rank change year-on-year -31 +16 -24
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,904 1,954 3,059
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.93% 3.98% 3.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.61% 4.41% 3.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,391 983 2,242
10th Percentile £46,250 £49,550 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.54% -13.97%
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £115,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -5.30%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 72,823 44,302 82,887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.72% 90.16% 82.12%
Number of salaries quoted 50,276 24,855 57,929
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,201 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.89% +4.00% -8.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 16 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 16 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -29 1,673 £75,000 +3.45% 494
UK excluding London -52 1,014 £65,000 -7.14% 331
Work from Home -17 872 £65,000 -7.14% 258
London -14 748 £85,000 +3.03% 255
North of England -34 363 £69,310 -3.72% 101
South East +3 269 £65,000 -7.14% 109
North West -49 198 £75,000 +7.14% 57
South West -43 110 £55,000 -19.74% 37
Midlands -53 95 £65,000 -1.89% 41
North East +15 85 £65,000 +18.18% 16
Yorkshire -26 80 £62,500 -13.49% 28
West Midlands -46 69 £77,500 +10.71% 27
Wales -17 52 £70,000 +34.62% 14
East of England -14 48 £60,100 -3.84% 5
Northern Ireland -21 47 £72,500 +45.00% 16
Scotland -60 32 £60,000 -22.58% 11
East Midlands -70 25 £64,000 +6.67% 14
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 - 4

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 33 (1.73%) Confluence
2 23 (1.21%) Apache Spark
3 17 (0.89%) CMS
4 16 (0.84%) IIS
5 13 (0.68%) Apache
6 9 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 9 (0.47%) Camunda
6 9 (0.47%) JBoss
7 8 (0.42%) WordPress
8 7 (0.37%) nginx
8 7 (0.37%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.26%) Drupal
10 4 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.21%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
10 4 (0.21%) Umbraco
11 3 (0.16%) DNN
11 3 (0.16%) Kentico
11 3 (0.16%) NServiceBus
11 3 (0.16%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 12 (0.63%) MS Visio
2 8 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.32%) PlantUML
4 3 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (0.32%) Oracle Retail
4 4 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.11%) Shopify
7 1 (0.053%) Eikon
7 1 (0.053%) RMDS
7 1 (0.053%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 987 (51.84%) AWS
2 822 (43.17%) Azure
3 332 (17.44%) GCP
4 266 (13.97%) Serverless
5 228 (11.97%) GitHub
6 185 (9.72%) SaaS
7 163 (8.56%) Azure DevOps
8 125 (6.57%) AWS Lambda
9 113 (5.93%) Amazon EKS
10 107 (5.62%) Amazon S3
11 99 (5.20%) AWS CloudFormation
12 95 (4.99%) GitHub Copilot
13 90 (4.73%) Azure Service Bus
14 78 (4.10%) Amazon ECS
15 67 (3.52%) Amazon EC2
16 65 (3.41%) Azure AKS
17 62 (3.26%) GitHub Actions
18 59 (3.10%) Amazon SQS
19 52 (2.73%) PaaS
20 48 (2.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 64 (3.36%) Broadband
2 24 (1.26%) Network Security
3 15 (0.79%) MQTT
4 13 (0.68%) DMARC
5 11 (0.58%) DNS
6 8 (0.42%) AMQP
6 8 (0.42%) Firewall
6 8 (0.42%) Internet
6 8 (0.42%) VPN
7 7 (0.37%) DHCP
7 7 (0.37%) Hyperconnected
8 6 (0.32%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (0.32%) RFID
8 6 (0.32%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.26%) HTTP
10 4 (0.21%) LTE
11 3 (0.16%) Modbus
12 1 (0.053%) HTTPS
12 1 (0.053%) PSTN
12 1 (0.053%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 298 (15.65%) MongoDB
2 214 (11.24%) PostgreSQL
3 201 (10.56%) NoSQL
4 166 (8.72%) Azure SQL Database
5 158 (8.30%) Elasticsearch
6 120 (6.30%) MySQL
7 102 (5.36%) SQL Server
8 87 (4.57%) Relational Database
9 62 (3.26%) Redis
10 51 (2.68%) DynamoDB
11 48 (2.52%) Amazon RDS
12 30 (1.58%) Big Data
13 23 (1.21%) RDBMS
14 19 (1.00%) BigQuery
15 12 (0.63%) Db2
15 12 (0.63%) DTS
16 11 (0.58%) Pinecone
17 10 (0.53%) Data Lake
18 9 (0.47%) Geospatial Data
19 8 (0.42%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 225 (11.82%) Git
2 184 (9.66%) GitLab
3 153 (8.04%) Jenkins
4 60 (3.15%) TeamCity
5 57 (2.99%) JIRA
6 52 (2.73%) JUnit
7 43 (2.26%) Cucumber
8 32 (1.68%) Claude Code
9 31 (1.63%) Mockito
10 30 (1.58%) Cypress.io
11 24 (1.26%) CircleCI
11 24 (1.26%) Maven
12 19 (1.00%) Selenium
13 18 (0.95%) SonarQube
14 17 (0.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 13 (0.68%) Vite
16 12 (0.63%) JMeter
16 12 (0.63%) Postman
16 12 (0.63%) Spock
17 11 (0.58%) REST Assured
General
1 454 (23.84%) Finance
2 332 (17.44%) Social Skills
3 186 (9.77%) Public Sector
4 162 (8.51%) Banking
5 119 (6.25%) Retail
6 114 (5.99%) Law
7 107 (5.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 105 (5.51%) Analytical Skills
9 62 (3.26%) Legal
10 59 (3.10%) Financial Institution
11 51 (2.68%) Back Office
12 33 (1.73%) Marketing
13 28 (1.47%) Legal Technology
14 27 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
15 22 (1.16%) Aerospace
15 22 (1.16%) Telecoms
16 19 (1.00%) Advertising
17 18 (0.95%) Games
18 16 (0.84%) Billing
19 15 (0.79%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 721 (37.87%) Developer
2 454 (23.84%) Senior
3 346 (18.17%) Software Engineer
4 283 (14.86%) Lead
5 257 (13.50%) Architect
6 204 (10.71%) .NET Developer
7 162 (8.51%) Senior Developer
8 148 (7.77%) Full-Stack Developer
9 145 (7.62%) Java Developer
10 132 (6.93%) Java Engineer
11 109 (5.72%) Senior Software Engineer
12 108 (5.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 105 (5.51%) Solutions Architect
14 94 (4.94%) Principal Engineer
15 80 (4.20%) Software Developer
16 71 (3.73%) DevOps Engineer
17 69 (3.62%) Lead Developer
18 55 (2.89%) Lead Software Engineer
18 55 (2.89%) Technical Leader
19 52 (2.73%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 516 (27.10%) .NET
2 417 (21.90%) Node.js
2 417 (21.90%) React
3 312 (16.39%) Spring
4 291 (15.28%) Spring Boot
5 274 (14.39%) RESTful
6 247 (12.97%) REST
7 229 (12.03%) Kafka
8 228 (11.97%) ASP.NET
9 212 (11.13%) .NET Core
10 203 (10.66%) AngularJS
11 201 (10.56%) Vue
12 189 (9.93%) ASP.NET Core
13 108 (5.67%) ASP.NET Web API
14 104 (5.46%) Blazor
15 99 (5.20%) .NET Framework
16 92 (4.83%) HTML
17 86 (4.52%) CSS
18 80 (4.20%) gRPC
19 71 (3.73%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 570 (29.94%) Cloud Native
2 327 (17.17%) Distributed Systems
3 137 (7.20%) Product Ownership
4 95 (4.99%) Legacy Systems
5 79 (4.15%) Enterprise Software
6 56 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
7 52 (2.73%) Onboarding
8 46 (2.42%) Video\Live Streaming
9 45 (2.36%) Over-the-Top Content
10 40 (2.10%) Public Cloud
11 36 (1.89%) AI Agents
12 30 (1.58%) e-Learning
13 27 (1.42%) Algorithms
14 26 (1.37%) Data Structures
14 26 (1.37%) Virtual Team
15 25 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
16 23 (1.21%) Distributed Architecture
16 23 (1.21%) Legacy Applications
17 20 (1.05%) Mobile App
18 18 (0.95%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 115 (6.04%) Linux
2 45 (2.36%) Windows
3 20 (1.05%) Unix
4 16 (0.84%) CentOS
4 16 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.32%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.21%) AIX
6 4 (0.21%) Debian
6 4 (0.21%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.053%) Android
7 1 (0.053%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.053%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.053%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 985 (51.73%) CI/CD
2 894 (46.95%) Agile
3 673 (35.35%) DevOps
3 673 (35.35%) Software Engineering
4 545 (28.62%) Full-Stack Development
5 438 (23.00%) Mentoring
6 416 (21.85%) Containerisation
7 390 (20.48%) Event-Driven
8 388 (20.38%) AI
8 388 (20.38%) Test Automation
9 373 (19.59%) Continuous Improvement
10 360 (18.91%) Infrastructure as Code
11 343 (18.01%) Problem-Solving
12 271 (14.23%) Scrum
13 246 (12.92%) Technical Leadership
14 243 (12.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 233 (12.24%) TDD
16 213 (11.19%) Clean Code
17 211 (11.08%) Coaching
18 200 (10.50%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 618 (32.46%) Java
2 521 (27.36%) C#
3 484 (25.42%) SQL
4 457 (24.00%) Python
5 431 (22.64%) JavaScript
6 356 (18.70%) TypeScript
7 118 (6.20%) Go
8 53 (2.78%) Scala
9 46 (2.42%) Ruby
10 45 (2.36%) C++
11 43 (2.26%) PHP
12 38 (2.00%) Bash
13 26 (1.37%) PowerShell
14 25 (1.31%) Bicep
14 25 (1.31%) Rust
15 23 (1.21%) C
16 14 (0.74%) Kotlin
16 14 (0.74%) PL/SQL
17 12 (0.63%) Groovy
18 11 (0.58%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 237 (12.45%) Security Cleared
2 174 (9.14%) Degree
3 161 (8.46%) SC Cleared
4 80 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 66 (3.47%) AWS Certification
6 55 (2.89%) DV Cleared
7 40 (2.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 23 (1.21%) CISSP
9 20 (1.05%) Master's Degree
10 18 (0.95%) Azure Certification
11 12 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
12 10 (0.53%) DBS Check
13 9 (0.47%) PhD
14 8 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (0.42%) CISM
14 8 (0.42%) MBA
15 5 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
15 5 (0.26%) GIAC
15 5 (0.26%) ISACA
15 5 (0.26%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (9.56%) QA
2 66 (3.47%) Accessibility
3 42 (2.21%) GDPR
4 40 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 28 (1.47%) WCAG
6 24 (1.26%) PCI DSS
7 23 (1.21%) SOC 2
8 22 (1.16%) NIST
9 18 (0.95%) NCSC
10 15 (0.79%) GRC
11 10 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
12 8 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 7 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.32%) Data Quality
14 6 (0.32%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.26%) SEPA
16 4 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 4 (0.21%) PSD2
17 3 (0.16%) IFRS
System Software
1 542 (28.47%) Docker
2 22 (1.16%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.21%) Firmware
5 2 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.053%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 575 (30.20%) Kubernetes
2 346 (18.17%) Terraform
3 108 (5.67%) Ansible
4 101 (5.30%) Grafana
5 60 (3.15%) Prometheus
6 24 (1.26%) Argo
7 18 (0.95%) Puppet
8 17 (0.89%) Kibana
9 13 (0.68%) Cilium
10 12 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (0.42%) HP Fortify
12 6 (0.32%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.21%) Packer
13 4 (0.21%) Podman
14 2 (0.11%) MIIS
14 2 (0.11%) Nagios
14 2 (0.11%) Opsgenie
14 2 (0.11%) Rancher
15 1 (0.053%) Istio
15 1 (0.053%) logstash
Vendors
1 303 (15.91%) Microsoft
2 83 (4.36%) Google
3 59 (3.10%) Oracle
4 45 (2.36%) Typelevel
5 37 (1.94%) OpenAI
6 29 (1.52%) Splunk
7 25 (1.31%) Dynatrace
8 21 (1.10%) IBM
9 20 (1.05%) AppDynamics
10 17 (0.89%) Databricks
11 13 (0.68%) Adobe
11 13 (0.68%) SendGrid
12 12 (0.63%) OneLogin
12 12 (0.63%) Red Hat
12 12 (0.63%) Salesforce
13 10 (0.53%) SAP
13 10 (0.53%) ServiceNow
14 7 (0.37%) Cisco
14 7 (0.37%) Guidewire
14 7 (0.37%) HubSpot